Car-coupling



(No Model.)

L. KING.

. CAR COUPLING.

Patentie d- Nov. 8,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEANDER KING, OF GEORGETOWN, OHIO.

- CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,369, dated November 8 1881. Application filed September 24, Iss1. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEANDER KING, of Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful ImprovementinCar'Oouplings, of which the following is aspecification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view, showing a portion of a freight-car provided with a coupling embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the draw-head in the plane of the coupling-pin.

A may represent a part of one end of an ordinary freight-car; B, timbers forming guide and support for the draw bar and head.

The draw head 0 contains two compartments-t0 wit, a right-hand compartment, D, and a left-hand compartment, E. Compartment D has a permanently-protruding link, F, which enters and is secured within the lefthand compartment of the head of the opposing car, if one of the same pattern. When thus coupled the left-hand compartment, E, of the represented car merely receives, without fastening, the link of the opposing car. Each draw-head has, for the purpose of engaging the opposing link, a horizontally-sliding coupling-pin, G. The outer extremity of pin G is pivoted (g) to a bell-crank, H, fulcrumed (it) upon the draw-head, and having a shank, I, which, extending backward, occupies a guide, J, underneath the car-body. The shank I is slotted (2') for apin, k, that extends downward from a sliding rod, K, which, occupying sockets L in the car-body, extends to close proximity with the outside of the said body and terminates in handles M, conveniently accessible to a person standing to one side of the train, and who, by a lifting of the handle M, followed by a longitudinal movement of the rod, either withdraws the pin from or. thrusts it into the coupling-link of the opposing car.

The rod K having been drawn or pushed to the desired position for coupling or uncoupling, as the case may be, the handles M are suffered to drop to the represented perpendicular position," and when in this position detents N engage behind stops 0 and retain the rod at any one time, and that may be the link which it is for the time being most convenient to employ.

In case the link in use should break, there will always be another in reserve and in position for instant use.

I claim as new and of my invention- A draw-head in two compartments, of which one compartment, D, contains a permanentlyprojecting link, F, and the other compartment the opposing car, and is provided with a coup ling-bolt, G, operated by bell-crank H, and sliding and vibrating rod K, accessible at the car-sides, and self-lockin g to either the coupled or the uncoupled position, substantially asset forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

LEANDER KING. Attest: GEO. H. KNIGHT,

SAML. S. CARPENTER.

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